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Westminster Hall
Financial Transparency: Overseas Territories - Wed 05 Nov 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Phil Brickell (Lab - Bolton West) Friend for his passionate campaigning on this issue. - Speech Link
2: Lloyd Hatton (Lab - South Dorset) The Committee has pressed for greater transparency concerning tax that is lost offshore. - Speech Link
3: Rebecca Long Bailey (Lab - Salford) First, we need real transparency. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Sentencing Bill
Committee of the whole House - Tue 21 Oct 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Andy Slaughter (Lab - Hammersmith and Chiswick) This would improve transparency and allow parliamentarians to assess for themselves how successfully - Speech Link
2: Kieran Mullan (Con - Bexhill and Battle) That is because whatever damage voting for this Bill might do to the electoral prospects of Labour MPs - Speech Link
3: Blake Stephenson (Con - Mid Bedfordshire) We spoke about the tireless work that she has put into campaigning for victims’ rights, and I heard more - Speech Link
4: None This measure is about transparency, accuracy and trust. - Speech Link
5: None The best way to combat that is more transparency. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Fifth sitting)
Committee stage: 5th sitting - Thu 16 Oct 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Manuela Perteghella (LD - Stratford-on-Avon) regional.The measure would also—I will say this again and again—strengthen accountability and transparency - Speech Link
2: Paul Holmes (Con - Hamble Valley) very clear about what they want to do for their residents.Therefore, residents who engage with the electoral - Speech Link
3: Paul Holmes (Con - Hamble Valley) The electoral process is the point. - Speech Link
4: Paul Holmes (Con - Hamble Valley) I think that most campaigning groups are filled with people who are utterly enthralled and want to achieve - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 12 Sep 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Dubs (Lab - Life peer) For her tenacity, sensitivity and campaigning fervour, she deserves a lot of respect, even if one does - Speech Link
2: Baroness Cass (XB - Life peer) For the sake of transparency, I will say that, on a personal level, I am supportive of the principle - Speech Link
3: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) not want an approach to the permanent turning of a blind eye to potential coercion and denial of transparency - Speech Link
4: Baroness Lawlor (Con - Life peer) change and the potential impact to which your Lordships have drawn attention—even though this has no electoral - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Housing: North Staffordshire - Tue 09 Sep 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Allison Gardner (Lab - Stoke-on-Trent South) A development of such size would create a whole new electoral ward. - Speech Link
2: Allison Gardner (Lab - Stoke-on-Trent South) In Tittensor, villagers have been campaigning for over 30 years for a crossing, and in Draycott in the - Speech Link
3: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) Members, that what communities want is transparency about where those funds go and certainty that they - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
2nd reading - Tue 02 Sep 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Angela Rayner (Lab - Ashton-under-Lyne) Friend for his campaigning, pressing the case that his constituents are better off for such an investment - Speech Link
2: Vikki Slade (LD - Mid Dorset and North Poole) Although I recognise that there is an anomaly for next year, even electoral officials are worried about - Speech Link
3: Charlotte Cane (LD - Ely and East Cambridgeshire) How can we improve the transparency of their decision making at a political level? - Speech Link
4: Simon Opher (Lab - Stroud) Is it not also time for a national commission on electoral reform? - Speech Link
5: Siân Berry (Green - Brighton Pavilion) Yet the Bill appears to be silent on any higher standards of accountability, transparency or conduct - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
Report stage part one - Wed 23 Jul 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None If it gives money to a political party or to an MP, that, of course, will be disclosed in the Electoral - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lawlor (Con - Life peer) from the noble Lord, Lord Leigh of Hurley, to omit Clauses 77 and 78 because, in the interests of transparency - Speech Link
3: Lord Goddard of Stockport (LD - Life peer) The reason for that is that the opt-in system is the best because it maximises choice and transparency - Speech Link
4: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) Political campaigning, which the noble Lord will know is clearly spelled out already in the legislation - Speech Link


Written Statements
Modern and Secure Elections - Thu 17 Jul 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Rushanara Ali (Lab - Bethnal Green and Stepney) marks a significant step forward to strengthening our democracy and upholding the integrity of our electoral - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 14 Jul 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Andrew Pakes (LAB - Peterborough) They face unfair charges, a lack of transparency, bad communication and poor services. - Speech Link
2: Rushanara Ali (Lab - Bethnal Green and Stepney) Where we find barriers to participation, we will work with the electoral sector and other stakeholders - Speech Link
3: Rushanara Ali (Lab - Bethnal Green and Stepney) Her party had the opportunity when in government to introduce electoral reform. - Speech Link
4: Sarah Olney (LD - Richmond Park) and Community Empowerment Bill, which recognise that first past the post is an unrepresentative electoral - Speech Link
5: Angela Rayner (Lab - Ashton-under-Lyne) Friend the Member for Sheffield Heeley (Louise Haigh) for her incredible and tenacious campaigning. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
Committee stage part two - Tue 10 Jun 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) What it does is inject a degree of transparency, rigour and, crucially, consent into a provision that - Speech Link
2: None That is not industrial democracy; that is electoral engineering. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Coffey (Con - Life peer) I do not believe that removing transparency is the right direction for the Committee to take.Although - Speech Link
4: None None the less, the points stand regarding political campaigning. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Bousted (Lab - Life peer) It is the same with the international fund and the campaigning fund. - Speech Link